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Minnydow Mote
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0299
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0299 (299)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkpatrick Durham
- National Grid reference
- NX 7975 7098
- Latitude
- 55.01881
- Longitude
- -3.88234
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1850); Other (1892); Other (1911); Other (1973)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4290
- National record
- record NX 77 SE 10; monument 64712
- Wikidata
- Q31058547
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1893) 'The motes, forts, and doons in the east and west divisions of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 27, 92-182
- RCAHMS (1914) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Fifth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in Galloway, II, county of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Edinburgh